Scarf hairpiece



AUS 12 1969 4 w. D. ABBo1"r 3,460,546

' SCARF HAIRPIECE Filed Oct. 5', .1966

` y wlLl- A D. ABBOTT EVG Q 1 ATTORNEYS United States Patent O 3,460,546SCARF HAIRPIECE Willa D. Abbott, 31S Mulholland St., Ann Arbor, Mich.48103 Filed Oct. 5, 1966, Ser. No. 584,565 Int. Cl. A41g 3/00 U.S. Cl.132--53 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The present invention relatesto improvements in a head covering for females in the form of a scarf orbabushka hairpiece. In effect, the present invention constitutes acombination head covering and wig which may be worn to conceal ones hairfor any decided purpose such as a housewifes hurried visit to the marketprior to doing up her hair.

In its preferred embodiment, the invention takes the form of atriangular piece of fabric having suitably attached to the underside afringe of hair extending outwardly from the sides of the fabric topresent, as worn, bangs over the forehead and depending hair over thenape of the neck. United States Patents 2,574,558 and 2,889,557illustrate the state of the art.

Thus, an object of the invention is to provide a combination babushkaand wig in which a swath-like arrangement of hair attached to theunderside of the babushka is arranged over the forehead by theattachment of the babushka under the chin and loosely confined over thenape of the neck by the lower edges of the babushka.

Another object is to provide a combination head covering hairpiece inwhich there is a swath-like arrangement of hair for covering theforehead and the nape of the neck.

A further object is to provide a -babushka having a swath-likearrangement of hair attached to the underside thereof a substantialdistance inwardly of the rearwardly extending angularly disposed loweredges of the babushka.

A still further object is to provide a combination head cover andhairpiece in which a swath-like arrangement of hair is so located on theunderside of the head cover as to fall naturally over the forehead andthe nape of the neck.

These and other objects and advantages ofthe invention will appear fromthe following specification and the appended claim:

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FIG. 1 is a side elevational view orf the scarf and hairpiece beingworn,

FIG. 2 is a front view of FIG. l,

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the underside of the scarf and hairpiece assupported on a flat surface,

FIG. 4 is a View similar to FIG. 3 of the outer side of the scarf andhairpiece, and

FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 3 of a slightly modified form.

The scarf or babushka is preferably of triangular shape. As worn, thefront edge 12 of the babushka 10 is tensioned over the top of the headby tying the ends 14 under the chin.

The angularly disposed rearward edges 16 and 18 of the babushka 10define that portion 20 which loosely depends over the -back of the headand above the nape of the neck.

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Swath-like arrangements of hair, natural or artificial, are attached inany suitable manner to the underside of the babushka 10. As illustrated,in the form of FIG. 3, the hair is arranged in two different areas. Hair22 is attached along the edge 12 to provide the bangs over the forehead,as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Hair 24 is attached substantially inward orfthe edges 16 and 18 so as to naturally drape over the back of the headand the nape of the neck. It will be understood the amount of hair 22and 24 attached to the babushka 10 in the areas indicated will besufficient to effectively mask the natural hair of the wearer.

In practice, the scarf or ba'bushka 10 Iwill usually be of clothcomprised of two layers so the attachment means for the hair 22 and 24to the inner layer of cloth will free the outer layers of cloth from allvisual attachment means. The attachment of the hair 22 and 24 may takemany forms. For example, it may be held to the inner layer of cloth bythe tapes 26 and 28 stitched or bonded in position. Also, the tapes 26and 28 may have the hair attached directly thereof with the tapes beingremovably attached to the underside of the scarf 10 by snap fasteners,Velcro fasteners, sliding fasteners, or the like. By having the hair 22and 24 readily removable from the scarf 10, the hair may be washedseparately from the fabric and used on other scarfs.

Having the hair 22 and 24 arranged as above described is particularlydesirable as the tensioning of the edge 12 causes the hair 22 to take astylish bang form over the undone natural hair and the hair Z4 isloosely confined by the edges 16 and 18 to effectively and stylishlymask the undone state of the natural hair at the nape of the neck.

In FIG. 5, a slightly modified form is shown in which the tapes 28attaching the hair 24 to the underside of the scarf 10 are acutelyarranged to each other to slightly alter the draping olf the hair overthe back of the head.

I claim:

1. A combination head covering and wig comprising, in combination, aone-piece triangular shaped scarf having a front edge and angularlydisposed intersecting rear edges, hair supporting base memberspermanently affixed to the underside of said scarf, one of said basemembers being disposed adjacent said front edge and having hairextending therefrom in swath-like arrangement from and beyond said frontedge, the other of said base members having hair extending therefrom inswath-like arrangement from and beyond said rearward edges whereby thehair extending beyond said scarf front edge is in the form of bangsdepending over the forehead of the wearer and is accentuated by thetensioned front edge on its attachment beneath the chin of the wearerand the hair extending beyond said rearward edges is long and dependsover the nape of the neck of the wearer and is loosely confined by therearward untensioned edges of said scarf.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,574,558 11/195'1 Graber et al.132-53 2,651,310 9/1953 Selson 132-48 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,377,550 9/1963France. 1,187,256 11/1957 France.

LOUIS G. MANCENE, Primary Examiner GREGORY E. MCNEILL, AssistantExaminer

